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The Drydock - Episode 354
🕑 Added 2025-06-14 08:00:03 +0000 UTC00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:36 - Did the british have any plans to use the 24.5 inch torpedoes on anything other then Nelson and Rodney?
00:04:26 - German Hedgehog equivilant?
00:07:40 - Was work ever done on cooling naval gun barrels?
00:11:25 - Just how did submarine commanders estimate/calculate the tonnage of the merchant ships they had sunk?
00:14:23 - Offensive Range in different settings?
00:19:08 - Had the Australian Federal Government not bowed to pressure to the RAAF in the mid-1920s and allowed the RAN to continue developing its own Fleet Air Arm. What impact could it have on RAN, RN and, if need be, USN Naval Air ops during World War 2?
00:25:06 - Since WW2 carriers were of the STOBAR variety, why wasn't the ski-ramp seen on STOBAR and STOVL carriers today tried earlier?
00:30:15 - How would carrier development have been affected, if the US used the displacement for Wasp to build 1 or 2 purpose-built escort carriers instead? (with smaller air group, and slower speed, designed for convoy escort)
00:33:22 - In the Age of Sail, when and why did quarter decks go out of fashion?
00:39:21 - In your mind, what battle from the time the channel covers is the most misunderstood in public discourse?
00:48:13 - Scuttling a ship?
00:54:08 - Why were converted aircraft carriers less efficient than purpose built ones?
00:58:58 - What actually happens after a ship is sent to the breakers?
01:02:28 - What made the 'long nine' so formidable?
Comments
Allen Parmet
4:26 This is the World War I German 24.5 cm minenwerfer. The mortar weighed 768 Kg and threw a shell 500-900 m. However it took about 5 minutes to load with four propellant charges and then the shell. Imagine a cluster of these on the fore deck.
Monsquire
Informative. But went quickly
The Rogue Chief
Calling scuttling charges going in expecting to fail sounds almost like calling parachutes going in expecting to crash or calling life jackets going in expecting to sink… It just seems like a really good precaution against the “we really don’t want it to happen but what if worst comes to worst and it does?”, otherwise known as “better to have it and not need it and to need it and not have it, and not wanting military tech to fall into enemy hands seems like a prudent precautionary concern… The main issue from there though is, granted, as you put it the difficulty in getting those scuttling charges where you need them when you need them
